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Lawangan language

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Native to
  
Indonesia

Native speakers
  
(120,000 cited 1981)

Region
  
Kalimantan

Glottolog
  
nort2888

Language family
  
Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian East Barito (North) Lawangan

ISO 639-3
  
Either: lbx – Lawangan twy – Tawoyan

Lawangan is an Austronesian language of the East Barito group. It is spoken by about 100,000 Lawangan people (one of the Dayak peoples) living in the central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Lawangan has a high degree of dialectal diversity.

References

Lawangan language Wikipedia